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New Orleans City Council
Reports and letters arrive at the Council marked 'may be received,' and the phrase sounds like approval. It is closer to the opposite. Receiving a document means acknowledging it for the record, not endorsing or acting on it. A plain-language guide to the lightest action the Council takes.
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New Orleans City Council
Reports and letters arrive at the Council marked 'may be received,' and the phrase sounds like approval. It is closer to the opposite. Receiving a document means acknowledging it for the record, not endorsing or acting on it. A plain-language guide to the lightest action the Council takes.
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The New Orleans City Council adopted a resolution honoring Frank Perez, the historian and tour guide who chronicled the city's LGBTQ+ history. Friends recalled the man everyone called for that history, from a conversion camp in Kansas to a straw hat on Bourbon Street.
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Mayor Helena Moreno told the City Council the 2027 budget is "a tough budget." Her administration projects $748 million in recurring revenue against $847 million in requests, proposes $77 million in cuts and 152 fewer positions, and offers a millage roll forward among options for new revenue.
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The New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to cut the fee developers pay to skip required affordable units from $304,810 to $10,000, and directed the City Planning Commission to hold a public hearing on broader changes to mandatory inclusionary zoning.
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The New Orleans City Council named Lake Forest Boulevard and Wright Road for Taj Rudolph, a 25-year-old city neighborhood liaison who died in September of a rare genetic heart condition. Family and council members remembered a young public servant who gave back even in death as an organ donor.
News Analysis
Named for a Black doctor who ran a free clinic in Algiers, Landry opened in 1938. Its operator won't seek renewal; public meetings start Monday.
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Named for a Black doctor who ran a free clinic in Algiers, Landry opened in 1938. Its operator won't seek renewal; public meetings start Monday.
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Sports
Maurice Turner ran for 200 yards and two touchdowns, including a 74-yard go-ahead run with 5:26 left, and Tulane blocked a tying field goal with 1:45 remaining to beat Southern Miss 24-21 and keep the Bell at Yulman Stadium.
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John F. Kennedy scored 26 points in the first quarter and returned two interceptions for touchdowns in a 46-0 shutout of L.B. Landry on Friday night. Landry's David Williams ran an interception back 102 yards, but a penalty erased the score.
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Ky'mani Henry's 89-yard kickoff return gave Edna Karr the lead on the first play Thursday night, and the Cougars' defense did the rest in a 31-0 shutout of Holy Cross. The District 9-5A opener moved the two-time defending Division I Select champions to 4-0 with Brother Martin up next.
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Dai'Jah Robertson learned to run at Joe W. Brown Memorial Park. Years later, the Warren Easton senior returned to the renovated New Orleans East track as a two-event Class 5A state champion, recognized with a City Council proclamation at the September ribbon-cutting where her career began.
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The Black School opened its first permanent home Saturday, a community arts center in the Seventh Ward, on the organization's 10th anniversary. Founders Shani Peters Cuillier and Joseph Cuillier credited crowdfunding, foundations, and a neighborhood of builders.
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The Black School opened its first permanent home Saturday, a community arts center in the Seventh Ward, on the organization's 10th anniversary. Founders Shani Peters Cuillier and Joseph Cuillier credited crowdfunding, foundations, and a neighborhood of builders.
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Attorney Juan LaFonta cut the ribbon on his new law office at 5301 Elysian Fields Avenue Saturday, with a City Council proclamation, Girls Play Trumpets Too, and a tribute to his late sister's career in the arts. He grew up riding the Elysian Fields bus. Now his building is on the route.
Education
The New Orleans Public Library formally reopened the Children's Resource Center on Napoleon Avenue as a dedicated early literacy center. The mayor put the renovation at about $473,000.
Community
Christian Wells has spent more than a decade building Anointed Confections. Her journey from corporate America to full-time entrepreneurship shows how preparation, community and a longtime friendship with Chicken’s Kitchen owner Marlon “Chicken” Williams helped create opportunities for growth.
Westbank
The Westbank Heritage Festival kicked off its 10th anniversary weekend with The Black Affair, transforming the Alario Center into an elegant night of music, food and celebration while highlighting the festival’s decade-long commitment to West Bank culture, small businesses and economic opportunity.
Coastal Louisiana
Before it was Pontchartrain, the water north of Nola was Okwata, the Choctaw word for wide water. The name described an estuary, not a lake. A century of engineering the basin as if it were a contained freshwater lake is now colliding with a dissolving coast and more frequent spillway releases.
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Coastal Louisiana
Before it was Pontchartrain, the water north of Nola was Okwata, the Choctaw word for wide water. The name described an estuary, not a lake. A century of engineering the basin as if it were a contained freshwater lake is now colliding with a dissolving coast and more frequent spillway releases.
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Local Government
At the August 20 Council meeting, eight ordinances turned on a single word: servitude. Pulled from the agreements themselves, here is what each one lets a private owner keep over public space, what it costs, and why the City has to approve it at all.
Infrastructure
Gary and Puerto Rico are 2,000 miles apart. Their grids fail along the same fault line: poverty.
Energy
Louisiana is one of five finalists for a federal Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus, and its application floats storing radioactive waste in offshore salt domes near Port Fourchon. The concept is on paper. The locations, the landowners, and the state's own application are not
Investigations
For the first time in roughly 130 years, elected officials you can vote for, not the state legislature, will oversee New Orleans' water, sewer, and drainage. Here is what changes, measure by measure, plus one open question about how the plan was drafted.
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The New Orleans City Council adopted a resolution honoring Frank Perez, the historian and tour guide who chronicled the city's LGBTQ+ history. Friends recalled the man everyone called for that history, from a conversion camp in Kansas to a straw hat on Bourbon Street.
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The New Orleans City Council adopted a resolution honoring Frank Perez, the historian and tour guide who chronicled the city's LGBTQ+ history. Friends recalled the man everyone called for that history, from a conversion camp in Kansas to a straw hat on Bourbon Street.
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The New Orleans City Council named Lake Forest Boulevard and Wright Road for Taj Rudolph, a 25-year-old city neighborhood liaison who died in September of a rare genetic heart condition. Family and council members remembered a young public servant who gave back even in death as an organ donor.
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The New Orleans City Council honored eight breast cancer survivors at its 13th annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Doctors from LSU Health, UMC and the Health Department described who screening is missing, including younger Black and Hispanic women, and asked the council for help.
Sports
Dai'Jah Robertson learned to run at Joe W. Brown Memorial Park. Years later, the Warren Easton senior returned to the renovated New Orleans East track as a two-event Class 5A state champion, recognized with a City Council proclamation at the September ribbon-cutting where her career began.
New Orleans City Council Proclamations
The New Orleans City Council recognized the GoldPrint Fashion Club and its founders, an Edna Karr teacher and a local designer, before Thursday's regular meeting. The student-led program introduces young people to fashion, design, sewing and entrepreneurship while building career skills.
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